Directing

Friedrich Tiedtke

Friedrich Tiedtke, born in 1991 in Eckernförde/Schleswig-Holstein, has been making short films since childhood. After leaving school, Friedrich first lived in Berlin, where he was a guest student at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb), and later in Copenhagen/Denmark, where he worked as a trainee at ZENTROPA Productions. Since 2017 and until 2022 he studies directing at the Film Universi…

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Calf

To finally stand on her own two feet, a young woman breaks off contact with her parents and fights alone to keep her self-sustaining farm. As winter sets in and the calving of her pregnant cow draws ever closer, loneliness and a longing for security and family grow. A story about cutting the umbilical cord.

Boys Feels: High Tide

Boys Feels: High Tide · 2021

Boys Feels: High Tide

Like tears in the rain, water is the metaphor for growing pains and so much more in these four tales about young boys coming to terms with a host of emotions for the very first time. These polished productions and festival favourites are brought to you by a host of talented directors from across Germany, Denmark, France and the Netherlands. The short films are: Ocean [Océan] (2013); Go Daan Go! [Daan Durft] (2014); The Boy in the Ocean (2016); Beach Boy (2011).

The Boy in the Ocean

The Boy in the Ocean · 2016

The Boy in the Ocean

The 12-year-old German boy, Mathias, discovers his sexuality on a sailing boat in Denmark. Surrounded by water, trapped on the boat with his parents, who still treat him like a child, his desire is to get on land to have new experiences.

Erinner mich an morgen

Erinner mich an morgen · 2026

Erinner mich an morgen

Geriatric carer Lea loves her job and uses imaginative role-plays to help her patients bring lost moments back to life. When the unusually young patient Hedda arrives and Lea is reminded of her own mother, she begins to overstep professional boundaries. What starts out as particular closeness and empathy, develops into a reality created by Lea herself, in which past and present, care and personal need, role and identity become inextricably interwoven.

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Calf

To finally stand on her own two feet, a young woman breaks off contact with her parents and fights alone to keep her self-sustaining farm. As winter sets in and the calving of her pregnant cow draws ever closer, loneliness and a longing for security and family grow. A story about cutting the umbilical cord.

Director

Boys Feels: High Tide

Boys Feels: High Tide · 2021

Boys Feels: High Tide

Like tears in the rain, water is the metaphor for growing pains and so much more in these four tales about young boys coming to terms with a host of emotions for the very first time. These polished productions and festival favourites are brought to you by a host of talented directors from across Germany, Denmark, France and the Netherlands. The short films are: Ocean [Océan] (2013); Go Daan Go! [Daan Durft] (2014); The Boy in the Ocean (2016); Beach Boy (2011).

Director

The Boy in the Ocean

The Boy in the Ocean · 2016

The Boy in the Ocean

The 12-year-old German boy, Mathias, discovers his sexuality on a sailing boat in Denmark. Surrounded by water, trapped on the boat with his parents, who still treat him like a child, his desire is to get on land to have new experiences.

Producer

Erinner mich an morgen

Erinner mich an morgen · 2026

Erinner mich an morgen

Geriatric carer Lea loves her job and uses imaginative role-plays to help her patients bring lost moments back to life. When the unusually young patient Hedda arrives and Lea is reminded of her own mother, she begins to overstep professional boundaries. What starts out as particular closeness and empathy, develops into a reality created by Lea herself, in which past and present, care and personal need, role and identity become inextricably interwoven.

Director